[lg policy] BBC: The rise of Singlish

[Harold Schiffman]

Good one, Bill--I spent 3 months there on a Fulbright and gradually learned
some of the lingo.  Once I criticized a taxi driver for taking me on a
tangent when I thought he should go left.  "Also can this side, lah!"  he
answered.  Later I even found a t-shirt for sale with the words "How to use
the lah" printed on it, with some examples.  Lah is hard to translate, but
used in almost every sentence to "soften" any harshness.

Best,

Hal

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Fierman, William <wfierman at indiana.edu>
wrote:

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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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